schmidt telescope

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   reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed

   SynonymsSchmidt camera

   Broaderreflecting telescope

Questions about schmidt telescope

What does schmidt telescope mean?

schmidt telescope means "reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed".

What is another word for schmidt telescope?

Close synonyms include Schmidt camera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is schmidt telescope a common word?

schmidt telescope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.